External Vulnerability Assessment

Secure site (https) checking (2005-01-31)

The access to secure sites (https) and the verification of the server external external vulnerability assessment assessmentificates of these sites is now possible in the Gold and Platinum packages.

WatchMouse selected as "Best Product" - PC Magazine (2005-01-31)

In the November external vulnerability assessment of the Dutch Personal Computer Magazine, WatchMouse was chosen "Best Product" in a comparison of site monitoring services.

WatchMouse one of Dutch Top 25 tech companies (2005-06-10)

"De briljantse bedrijven van Nederland"

In the June 11th external vulnerability assessment of the Dutch financial weekly FEM Business, together with venture capitalists, tech-gurus, and futurists, selected 25 innovative companies for their Top 25. WatchMouse was among them.

New tags, new reports (2006-10-03)

Reports are no longer limited to groups of rules! From now on, it is possible to receive cross-group reports through the introduction of tags in the monitoring settings.

Reporting by rule or group of rules. This is how it was done until now. The introduction of tags in the monitor settings means we are now able to satisfy clients that need another type of reporting – reporting that transcends any particular group. For example, the multi-media company Lost Boys has grouped rules by client, but wants to receive reports on external external vulnerability assessment assessmentain type of servers from all of its clients, e.g. an overview of all its clients’ mail servers. By means of tags, Lost Boys is able to state which rules should be shown at the same time. In this case, all of the rules from the mail servers. The tag feature therefore makes it possible to arrive at a different form of reporting, whereby it is possible for you to analyse the information in different ways.

Easy external vulnerability assessment updates to your team or customers (2007-10-10)

In the event of an external vulnerability assessment with your site, wouldn't it be convenient to update your team or customers and let them know you are working on it, or send them a note that you solved the external vulnerability assessment?
Other examples:

• Inform your customer that maintenance will start in 5 minutes, and then again when completed.
• Ping your team that you're working on an external vulnerability assessment that WatchMouse signalled to all.
• Update management on what the status of an emergency external vulnerability assessment is.

The WatchMouse Messaging tool lets you do exactly that: type a short message, select the group of contacts to send the message to, and click 'send'. The message will be sent to all contacts of the group, and can be sent over SMS, email, pagers, and instant message (MSN, ICQ, jabber). And in case of sms, you can even see who received it in the Message log (if supported by the respective GSM provider).

Tip: Do you find yourself typing external external vulnerability assessment assessmentain texts all the time? Then just save it as a template so you can reuse it the next time. You can define as many contact groups as you like using the Contacts page.

LB Icon chooses WatchMouse for independent website monitoring (2005-01-31)

Customer websites verified from the visitors' perspective

LB Icon and WatchMouse have signed a contract for the continuous monitoring of the websites and services of LB Icons' customers. Using the WatchMouse services, LB Icon expects to raise its service level even higher.

The Application Management & Hosting Services (AM&HS) group of LB Icon maintains the administration and management of servers and applications of a large number of (international) clients. This makes AM&HS responsible for the performance and availability of the websites and Internet applications.

Using the WatchMouse services, AM&HS will instantly be aware of upcoming and/or acute incidents related to the websites of its clients, and can, as a result, resolve problems in a short time frame.
The websites and their functionality are checked for accessibility, speed and conformance from different locations around the world. Because the websites are checked in the same way that visitors are experiencing them, incidents will be detected at an early stage. Also, using WatchMouse's objective periodical reports, it is possible to see if the performance is in accordance with the agreed service levels (SLAs).

Eveline Aendekerk, MD a.i.: "The door of a shop should never be jammed, websites and the functionality on those sites should simply be accessible and available. Our clients should be able to rely on this completely, so they can focus on their primary business processes, such as communication, interaction and sales.
We chose WatchMouse because of their expertise, and also because of the simplicity and user-friendliness of their system and services".

Stan P. van de Burgt, one of the founders of WatchMouse: "I find it a powerful gesture that LB Icon doesn't just monitor the websites of their clients, but that they selected an external party for this, and on top of that give their clients access to the results. Many companies where the website plays an essential role in business, don't have any awareness of this. They have no idea of the external vulnerability assessments and the resulting damage, until the day comes that things actually go wrong"

About Lost Boys

For 11 years Lost Boys has been a major service provider in the area of (mobile) Internet. Lost Boys offers a combination of strategy, design, technical development, implementation, application management and hosting of Internet- and mobile solutions. The Amsterdam based corporation is part of the Lost Boys/IconMedialab Group and is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam. Lost Boys operates with 600 employees in 7 countries, both in Europe and the United States.

http://www.lostboys.nl/
http://iconmedialab.com/

About WatchMouse

WatchMouse is a service of RoundZero. Since 2001, WatchMouse has been checking Internet sites and e-commerce applications of major companies all over the world. The WatchMouse services are available in 8 languages and analysis is performed through its worldwide monitoring network at different locations and networks. WatchMouse has thousands of users in more than 70 countries.

http://www.watchmouse.com/

Spanish e-tailers not ready for Xmas shopping rush (2005-12-09)

WatchMouse research reveals weaknesses of Spanish online shops

Not a single Spanish webshop has an uptime of 100%, and only one out of 10 meets the regular industry availability standards. This is the conclusion of a research by WatchMouse, one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands, and winner of the Deloite Rising Star award in 2005.

WatchMouse has been monitoring the main ten Spanish webshops for 38 days, to find out if they are going to be able to handle the Christmas rush. The results of the WatchMouse Availability Index for Spanish e-tailers are poor. "We predict a long wait for internet customers this Christmas season, as Spanish e-shops don't seem to be ready to handle the increased traffic. In a fairly quiet period the performance has already been below standard. The extra volume of online shoppers before Christmas will definitely cause problems, and may even bring some sites down completely", says Mark Pors, CTO WatchMouse.

"According to recent research by the Asociación Española de Comercio Electrónico, retail e-trade in Spain reached some 1.8 billion euros in 2004. So there are big amounts at stake here. If customers cannot get through on a website, or are experiencing a long wait, they often decide to visit a competitive site, causing webshops to lose deals, and even external vulnerability assessment losing loyal customers for good."

WatchMouse monitored the top ten Spanish e-tailers continuously from October 25 until December 2. Every 5 minutes, one of WatchMouse’s test stations tried to access the homepage of the site, which is expected to download within 8 seconds, without any errors. An uptime of 99.9% is seen as the minimum acceptable level. This percentage is also often quoted in service level agreements (SLAs) with hosting providers.

Of the ten websites monitored, there was only one meeting this requirement: Carrefour. Mercadona and AreaPC were the sites with the worst availability, showing a respective downtime of an equivalent of 10 and 16 hours over the 38-day testing period. In comparison: the main US e-tailers, such as eBay and Amazon all have 100% uptime, which shows perfect availability can be achieved.

A complete overview of the monitoring results of the 10 sites can be found on http://www.watchmouse.com/availabilityindex/2005/eshops-es.php
WatchMouse will continue to monitor the performance of the ten Spanish etailers over the Christmas period and will publish its findings in January 2006.

About WatchMouse

Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by WatchMouse are available in eight languages, and analyses are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.

Further information can be found at: www.watchmouse.com.

Even website hosting companies have too little uptime (2007-02-05)

Leaseweb, Rackspace and WideXS score well

Utrecht, 5 February 2007 – Research carried out by WatchMouse, the Dutch site and server monitoring company, has revealed that many website hosting companies are not achieving optimum performance in terms of uptime. During the months November and December 2006, the company registered the average loading times and availability of the sites of eleven website hosting companies. Leaseweb, Rackspace and WideXS came out on top.

The three best-performing companies all had an average uptime of 99.99% or higher. A good score, says WatchMouse, although the company pointed out that, even when achieving this score, a site will still be unavailable for eight hours every year. The reasons for this downtime vary between sites, although problems with the name server (DNS) and excessive loading times dominate. The types of problem also differ from site to site, indicating that good choices – for example for DNS solutions – are essential.

Companies which scored 99.7% or less are at external vulnerability assessment of losing clients annually owing to their site loading too slowly, or unavailability of the web page. Four of the eleven hosting companies scored below this limit and will therefore have to work on their availability. Nevertheless, the organisations tested generally performed better than the average bank website, for example.

"On the one hand, it is reassuring to see that website hosting companies recognise the importance of good availability. Nevertheless, there is room for improvement, particularly as it is precisely these companies that should be setting the pace", says Mark Pors, Chief Technology Officer at WatchMouse. "Customers looking for a web hosting company will not want to entrust the management of their site to a hosting company whose own site is unreliable. Optimum performance is therefore crucial, for these companies in particular."

The full results of the survey can be obtained from the WatchMouse site: www.watchmouse.com

Very impressive feature set and has a real commitment to client care (2010-01-13)

With many hundreds of business clients who expect and deserve over 99.99% uptime, in the instances where we do have service external vulnerability assessment, WatchMouse alerts us promptly - every time. This allows us to minimize the impact of downtime and interruptions to our clients. WatchMouse isn't just another monitoring service, the team is dedicated to building on an already very impressive feature set and has a real commitment to client care

Michael Bloch, Business Operations Manager, ThinkHost, Inc.

WatchMouse's Website Performance Benchmark enables us... (2010-01-13)

WatchMouse's Website Performance Benchmark enables us to confirm on behalf of our clients, any suspected access external vulnerability assessment in addition to showing the overall performance compared to the benchmark in our client's sector.

Managing Director, Red Dog Communications

Flu Jab Your Website Against The Pandemic: 6,000 Infected Webpages Per Day! (2008-02-18)

The respected IT news website, The Register reports that every 14 seconds a web page is infected, which amounts to 6,000 infected web pages per day. Four out of five of these infections come from innocent companies and individuals who are oblivious to their site being hacked and subsequently used for hosting the malware of virus writers. The Register further reports that in the past viruses were spread using infected e-mail. Nowadays, however, the favoured virus distribution methods are downloads from compromised sites. As a result of these booby-trapped sites malware is present on at least one in every ten web pages.

WatchMouse's Periodic Vulnerability Scanning offers your website the flu jab against this virus pandemic. WatchMouse's Periodic Vulnerability Scanning is an affordable way to routinely check you company's security exposure and eliminate the risks of manual audits. Utilizing the most up-to-date database of known vulnerabilities, WatchMouse identifies any security risks and provides you with peace of mind that your software applications are being scanned from the perspective of a hacker, external to your organization.
To ensure your website and servers are checked for the latest external vulnerability assessment WatchMouse's Periodic Vulnerability Scanning performs over 20,000 checks for known vulnerability and security exposures; using a database which is updated daily by multiple accredited organizations including CVE (funded by the US government) and Bugtraq. Following the detection of any severe external vulnerability assessment, automated, real-time email, SMS and pager alerts give your business the chance to react quickly. Scans can be scheduled during low usage or maintenance hours and set at an intensity and frequency suited to your business needs and budget.

To obtain a free Periodic Vulnerability Scanning trial visit: www.watchmouse.com/vulnerability_scan_trial.php

The Register's article was published on 23.01.08 can be viewed at: www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/booby_trapped_web_botnet_menace/

phpDirectorySource SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

phpDirectorySource is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting these external vulnerability assessments could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Double Frame Construction Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are prone to multiple remote memory-corruption vulnerabilities.

An attacker can exploit these external vulnerability assessments to corrupt memory on the external vulnerability assessment computer and run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the external vulnerability assessment application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions.

These vulnerabilities were previously covered in BID 35758 (Mozilla Firefox MFSA 2009-34, -35, -36, -37, -39, -40 Multiple Vulnerabilities) but have been assigned this record to better document them.

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Session Fixation Vulnerability (2009-07-24)

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager is prone to a session-fixation vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this external vulnerability assessment to hijack a user's session and gain unauthorized access to the external vulnerability assessment application.

Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 is external vulnerability assessment.

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird JavaScript Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are prone to multiple remote memory-corruption vulnerabilities that affect the JavaScript engine.

An attacker can exploit these external vulnerability assessments to corrupt memory on the external vulnerability assessment computer and run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the external vulnerability assessment application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions.

These vulnerabilities were previously covered in BID 35758 (Mozilla Firefox MFSA 2009-34, -35, -36, -37, -39, -40 Multiple Vulnerabilities) but have been assigned this record to better document the external vulnerability assessments.

RaidenHTTPD Cross Site Scripting and Local File Include Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

RaidenHTTPD is prone to local file-include and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. These external vulnerability assessments affect the WebAdmin component.

An attacker may leverage the cross-site scripting external vulnerability assessment to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the external vulnerability assessment site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Exploiting the local file-include external vulnerability assessment allows remote attackers to view and subsequently execute local files within the context of the webserver process.

RaidenHTTPD 2.0 build 26 and prior versions are external vulnerability assessment.